2005-08-09 Cities for Climate Protection Minutes

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Ad Hoc Committee to study Cities for Climate Protection Introductory meeting 8-9-05 at 7PM Members and attendees introduced themselves. Members: Ron Daddario, Gina Snyder, Steve Goldy r Attendees: Stephanie Anderberg, Ray Porter and guest, Kim. Lundgren from ICLEI ICLEI presentation by Kim Lundgren. ICLEI represents local governments for sustainability, it's an international association of local governments that has three Major campaigns that it sponsors, of which the Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) is one. Kim represents the Northeast regional center, New England, New York and New Jersey, she previously worked on energy and the environment for the city of Medford. CCP includes the whole town, the schools, the DPW and all the municipality. You take a baseline and then see what the town can do to work toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It's a 5 milestone process, but none of the steps are binding, for which ICLEI provides a framework and some software, but doesn't say what any town should or shouldn't do. Towns get help by letting ICLEI know what they need from the organization, networking and the software to do the calculations of emissions. Kim strongly recommends that the town hall staff own the information - that the inventory and software be installed on a town computer. It usually takes about three months to put the inventory together with a part time staff member working on it: Municipal side: Municipal buildings Schools Fleet Police DPW Fire Water/sewer utility Community: Residential, Commercial, Industrial - numbers often come from electric, gas and oil companies (often oil use is based on assumptions after gas and electric has been accounted for) Regional Transport VMT for town Other ICLEI campaigns include Cities 21 (fee for service) and a Water campaign that is currently being revamped. They have a program on urban heat islands and are part of MA clean energy program Bottom line - the program helps towns help themselves - as much or as little as they want The committee decided to meet with the town manager to identify personnel availability and when we need to put presentations together. Meetings will be posted by Ron for Aug. 30, Sept.6 and 20.